The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-28
SALT AS A MEDICINE.
A Learned Professors Views OF Its Merits
When JudiciousIy Used.

When Judiciously Used
Numerous inquiries have been made
at many of the drug stores lately for
"sea SALT" Turk Island SALT" Ger
man salt and other varieties of what
would commonly be termed rock salt.
The reporter was informed that the
people who came for the salt wanted it
to take as a medicine or tonic or some
thing of that nature, and that the kind
used was sea salt, which comes in large
Jumps weighing from twenty-five 10
one hundred pounds. The exterior St
the lump is dark colored, but inside
portions of it are rs transparent as
crystal.
The reporter pursued his investiga-
tons and found that many people were
taking salt regularly after their meals
with view to improving their health.
Some have used it with good effect in
bronchial difficulties, and where persons
have had hard colds it has given relief.
1t is used for kidney troubles and in
fact for all the many ills that flesh is
heir to. And instances were found,
too, where persons in perfectly good
bodily health were taking salt, believ-
ing that it aids digestion and keeps the
blood toned up to the proper point. A
number of articles have been going the
rounds of the press of late on the bene-
fits to be derived from the judicious use
of salt, in somewhat larger quantities
than people are in the habit of taking
it, and many people have been induced
to try this simple remedy.
One of the most enthusiastic believers
in the virtues of pure salt is w. IL.
Clark, of this city, who within a
months time has been relieved of a
kidney tronble and greatly benefited in
health by its use. In conversation with
the reporter. he said DR.. Burgraeve, a
learned professor of the University of
Client, has just published remarkable
work in which he sets forth that if the
world would follow his instructions,
centenarians would become almost as
common as newborn babes. He claims
thu health is not matter of chance or
constitution. The laws that regulate
human life are calm and regular phe-
nomena, and all we have to do is to
take care that it shall develop itself
without obstruction. According to his
theory, salt is the great regularizing
agent He claims that salt is an infalli-
llo o,,ro f>r oopSupo,,tion opI choIa,o
Formerly, in Holland, the greatest
punishment which existed for offending
soldiers was to give them unsalted
bread. After few months of its use
they almost invariably died. In Saxony,
at the end of the last century. terrible
epidemic reigned solely through the
want of salt. The Russian peasants
once saved themselves from plague
by putting salt in the milk they drank.
The professor estimates the quantity
that each adult in ordinary health
should consume every twenty-four
hours to be two-thirtls of an ounce; the
amount necessary for invalids and
children to be in proportion to their
vitality and age.
Mr.. Clark thinks that invariably
what is used should be taken at meal
time or Immediately thereafter, so that
it will 90 with the digested food direct
to the blood, as the professor claims
that if the blood be too rich the salt will
clarity it. and if too poor it will
strengthen it and furnish it with its
necessary elements. But extreme care
should be taken not to use salt to ex-
cess.-Uica (M. ~ Herald.